Our plan was to drive to Skye, hire a mountain guide and play on the alpine-like ridges of the Cuillin for a couple of days, and generally pretend to be the grizzled mountaineers that we plainly are not.
I packed my camera, hoping to get an atmospheric shot (or ten) of the sun kissed ridge wreathed in mist. With a mountaineer scrambling on it. Wearing a red jacket.
The weather had other plans and was your more typical Skye conditions ... rain, rain, rain, rain and rain. We downgraded our grizzled mountaineer plans and opted for a couple of the easier routes up Bruach Na Frithe and Bla Bheinn. No visibility. No dramatic ridge images.
The Sligachan Hotel and it's vast single malt selection provided some compensation, and there was a brief lull in the weather early in the morning we were due to head back down South. This image was take a few hundred yards from the hotel. I'm glad I brought my midge net.
Have a great weekend.
Pete
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